(Jewish Group) UK Labour Party announces new review process for antisemitism complaints...

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UK Labour Party announces new review process for antisemitism complaints, and end of ‘a dark chapter’ for Jews

Labour members attending the British party’s annual conference passed a rule on how they will handle antisemitism complaints, leading the party’s leader to declare that they had “closed the door this evening to antisemitism in the Labour Party.”

“We’ve turned our back on the dark chapter. Having closed that door, that door will never be opened again in our Labour Party to antisemitism,” Labour leader Keir Starmer said.

The change passed Sunday in Brighton, England, stipulates that complaints about antisemitism will be reviewed by an independent committee. During his years at the helm of the party, former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was accused of allowing antisemitism to fester among some of the party’s left-wing supporters.

Jewish Labour supporters who spoke Sunday supported the change.

The party is “turning the page on the blight of anti-Semitism,” said Jewish former Labour lawmaker Ruth Smeeth, who was bombarded with antisemitic death threats in 2019.

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We shall see. It is my experience that anti-Semitism is not taken seriously unless it is a goose-step kick in the ass, and from the right.